Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Colin
On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Greg Bur wrote: On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Ian K
Colin wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Greg Bur wrote: > >> On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, >>> (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models >>> would work the best under Linux. Im fairl

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Ian K
Colin wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Greg Bur wrote: > >> On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, >>> (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models >>> would work the best under Linux. Im fairl

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
> > Just remember, if the laptop isn't going too far, a good length of Ye > Olde Cat5e is a much cheaper solution. That being said... Changes the possible security implications too... > > > Yeah, I picked up a great Orinoco (branded as Enterasys) at > Rokland.com last month for roughly $50.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set > up. I dont know what > chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name > and brand? I really > just want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Ian K wrote: My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? Unfortunately, neither does anybody else on this list. This is because manufacturers have a habit of chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Colin
On Jul 24, 2005, at 3:56 AM, Richard Fish wrote: Ian K wrote: My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? Unfortunately, neither does anybody else on this li

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
> Unfortunately, neither does anybody else on this list. This is because > manufacturers have a habit of changing chipsets without changing model > numbers. So lot #1234 can be atheros, while #1235 can be intersil, > #1236 can be, well you get the picture. > > The best is to buy from a store wit

[gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?

2005-07-24 Thread Fabrizio Prosperi
Hi all, I am experiencing this strange problem. Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Just doing cat /var/log/portage/.log is making aterm crash again, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?

2005-07-24 Thread Fabrizio Prosperi
Me again, of course it wasnt't emerge --pretend, it was emerge --update world :) Fabrizio On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:52:06AM +0200, Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: > Hi all, I am experiencing this strange problem. > Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was > an emerge proble

[gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread smoke3
Hi guys, I just bought a new PS/2 Trust optical mouse (3 buttons), but I can't get it works under my gentoo: I'm using gentoo-sources 2.6.12-r6 for amd64 and I think I configured my kernel as well as possible for PS/2 mice support. When system boots, it turns the red laser light off and when i try

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
smoke3 wrote: Hi guys, I just bought a new PS/2 Trust optical mouse (3 buttons), but I can't get it works under my gentoo: I'm using gentoo-sources 2.6.12-r6 for amd64 and I think I configured my kernel as well as possible for PS/2 mice support. When system boots, it turns the red laser light of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Update] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:32:19 -0400, Robert Crawford wrote: > OK- if it doesn't happen during light computing stuff, and only with > very cpu intensive stuff like compiling, I feel virtually certain it is > a cpu heat issue. IMHO, there's not really any other reasonable > explanation. A duff pow

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread smoke3
On 7/24/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so you get some characters when you read /dev/input/mice and > /dev/psaux. What doesn't work? I don't get any trash chars when i move my mouse and red light is off! If i unplug and re-plug the mouse, i get red light turned on for just a se

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 Fabrizio Prosperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was > an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge > (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. > > Just doing cat /var/log/p

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
smoke3 wrote: On 7/24/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, so you get some characters when you read /dev/input/mice and /dev/psaux. What doesn't work? I don't get any trash chars when i move my mouse and red light is off! If i unplug and re-plug the mouse, i get red light

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 Fabrizio Prosperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Ju

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LCD monitors are fixed-rate, > > so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like > > with CRT monitors where you buy the highest resolution > > and then display at a lower rate if you wish. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Jules Colding wrote: > > Hi, > > > > "emerge --sync && emerge -vauDN" today gave me the following error. > > > [snip] > > adding: content/cookie/contents.rdf (stored 0%) > > +++ making > chrome > /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2/w

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 23:26 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Hmm, since others with similar systems cannot duplicate the problem, I > decided to capture all of the build output on my system (P4) and > compare. Jules, there is definitely something not right on your system, > but I don't know what ye

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread smoke3
On 7/24/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did you set CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y or =m? If =y, try rebuilding as a > module. This would let you remove and reload the driver (rmmod psmouse; > modprobe psmouse) to see what happens. I tried it also as module: I even passed every type of p

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:22 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > Jules Colding wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > "emerge --sync && emerge -vauDN" today gave me the following error. > > > > > [snip] > > > adding: content/cookie/contents.rdf (stored 0%

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Michal Pronay
smoke3 wrote: > On 7/24/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>Did you set CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y or =m? If =y, try rebuilding as a >>module. This would let you remove and reload the driver (rmmod psmouse; >>modprobe psmouse) to see what happens. > > > I tried it also as module: I even

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 01:02 +0200, Patrick Börjesson wrote: > Although... I would suggest that the OP give a more explicit "question", > since I was really not sure if it was a "anyone seen this before?", "I'm > a n00b, please solve this for me!" or a "where should I take this to get > it solved?"

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:21 am, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > LCD monitors are fixed-rate, > > > so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like > > > with CRT monitors where you buy the highest

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-24 Thread Michal Pronay
Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >>050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>LCD monitors are fixed-rate, >>>so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like >>>with CRT monitors where you buy the highest resolution >>>and then display at a l

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding CTRL

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: > Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in your kde > control panel -> Regional & Accessibility -> Accessibility. > > M. Well, that allows me to turn off the System Bell, but I'm curious as to why it's beeping in the fir

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread smoke3
On 7/24/05, Michal Pronay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like your mouse is broken, try booting some livecd like knoppix > for example. Easy way, but not the right one: my mouse is new and does function on other computers running M$... > > KVM means keyboard,video, mouse and stands for a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:08 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:51:53 +0200 > Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thank you for your advise. I got sound working by disabling ALSA and > > using OSS instead. I think this is an ALSA AMD64 issue. > > > > No, it's not. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > This seems like a continuation of the previous build problems that you > have had with firefox (where we were discussing MAKEOPTS). Assuming > that others cannot reproduce this (sorry, I don't have my amd64 right > now), there's still somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:52:11 +0200 smoke3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/24/05, Michal Pronay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looks like your mouse is broken, try booting some livecd like knoppix > > for example. > > Easy way, but not the right one: my mouse is new and does function on

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread smoke3
On 7/24/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm, OK, other computers... What about the computer you want to use it > with? What does it do if you try another OS? When the mouse is > considered OK, then there's the computer left... It's OK: I had winzoz installed from the seller i bou

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?

2005-07-24 Thread Fabrizio Prosperi
Thank you guys for the replies, I don't have access to the machine right now but I'll check /var/log/messages for oom messages and get back to you ASAP. Fabrizio On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:24:19PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:23:14 +0200 smoke3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's OK: I had winzoz installed from the seller i bought it from and > the mouse did function as well! Hm, OK, it definately _is_ a driver issue then... > > * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) > nice joke, b

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread smoke3
On 7/24/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm, OK, it definately _is_ a driver issue then... > > > > * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) > > nice joke, but... no! > > Well, seen it before, and I thought to mention it doesn't harm... :-) Ok ok! I'm a bit nervous on

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Jules Colding wrote: This could be a shot in the dark, but I think that you should remerge your autoconf and automake packages to see if that affects this. I'll be doing that. OK, I get a segfault doing that: ## snip ### test -z "/usr/share/automake-1.9/Au

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 06:45:56AM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:21 am, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > > 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > LCD monitors are fixed-rate, > > > > so you have to buy one that has t

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

2005-07-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
David Corbin wrote: > On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: > > Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in > > your kde control panel -> Regional & Accessibility -> > > Accessibility. > > Well, that allows me to turn off the System Bell, but I'm curious > as to

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread Matt Randolph
smoke3 wrote: On 7/24/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) nice joke, but... no! Did you get the mouse working under M$ on this computer or a different one? If you have never gotten it to work on this computer, you mig

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:48 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Well, since world includes system, if you want to rebuild *everything*, > I would think the following should be sufficient > > emerge --oneshot gcc binutils OK. What about glibc or is that just a part of "world"? -- jules -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Jules Colding wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: This seems like a continuation of the previous build problems that you have had with firefox (where we were discussing MAKEOPTS). Assuming that others cannot reproduce this (sorry, I don't have my amd64 right now), there

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Jules Colding wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:48 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Well, since world includes system, if you want to rebuild *everything*, I would think the following should be sufficient emerge --oneshot gcc binutils OK. What about glibc or is that just a part of "world"?

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:20 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Jules Colding wrote: > > Hmm... Among my USE flags is "nptlonly". Might that be a problem? > > > > Well, nptlonly seems to work for a lot of people, so I don't think that > should be a problem. I've only ever heard of it affecting old > b

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Rumen Yotov
Jules Colding wrote: >On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:22 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: > >>On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: >> >>>Jules Colding wrote: >>> Hi, "emerge --sync && emerge -vauDN" today gave me the following error. >>>[snip] >>> adding: content/cookie/

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 16:28 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Don't have any new idea, but could you check if there are some > "hardened" USE-flags in your /etc/make.conf (like 'pic', 'pie', > 'hardened' etc). Using some of them on a normal system may cause problems. > HTH. Rumen Nope, none. Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... I am seeing "(-multilib)" when doing the emerge of gcc and binutils, so multilib is disabled by my profile and shouldn't be enabled manually, right? Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/defau

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Fish wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... I am seeing "(-multilib)" when doing the emerge of gcc and binutils, so multilib is disabled by my profile and shouldn't be enabled manually, right? Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:51 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Jules Colding wrote: > > >Hmm... I am seeing "(-multilib)" when doing the emerge of gcc and > >binutils, so multilib is disabled by my profile and shouldn't be enabled > >manually, right? > > > > > > Could you double check the symlink /et

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Zac Medico
Jules Colding wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:20 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... Among my USE flags is "nptlonly". Might that be a problem? Well, nptlonly seems to work for a lot of people, so I don't think that should be a problem. I've only ever heard of it affec

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:58 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want > > it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. > > > > But read this first before changing anything: > > > > http://www.gent

[gentoo-user] transcode convertion

2005-07-24 Thread Luigi Pinna
Hello! I have a problem to convert a video. I need to use it in a DVD. I create an animation with GIMP and exported as .fli file and after with mencoder as a mpeg file but it was no right for dvdauthor. Now I tried to convert it with transcode (that has a DVD option -F 8) but it doesn't find the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Rumen Yotov
Jules Colding wrote: >On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:58 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Richard Fish wrote: >> >> >>>Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want >>>it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. >>> >>>But read this first before changi

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 17:43 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > No experience with 64-bits, but a USE-flag in () means not supported by > the profile. Have you changed profiles? No. Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Jules Colding wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:58 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. But read this first before changing anything: http:

Re: [gentoo-user] transcode convertion

2005-07-24 Thread Zac Medico
Luigi Pinna wrote: Hello! I have a problem to convert a video. I need to use it in a DVD. I create an animation with GIMP and exported as .fli file and after with mencoder as a mpeg file but it was no right for dvdauthor. Now I tried to convert it with transcode (that has a DVD option -F 8) but

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 17:06 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > >The existence of lib32 indicates multilib capabilities, right? I do > got > >both /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib32. > > > > > > > > How about /emul/linux/x86/lib? Yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ll /emul/linux/x86/ total 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread neil
Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... Among my USE flags is "nptlonly". Might that be a problem? I don't think so as I have that too. Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

2005-07-24 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 24 July 2005 08:58 am, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > David Corbin wrote: > > On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: > > > Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in > > > your kde control panel -> Regional & Accessibility -> > > > Accessibility. > > > > We

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Stroller
On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? I really just want to be able t

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Stroller
On Jul 24, 2005, at 1:49 am, Ian K wrote: I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Current

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Stephan Grein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: > >> On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless >>> to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so >>

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:11:09 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > I was going to post a question as to whether anybody knew how many more > revisions we're going to see to the Mozilla programs in the next couple > days; I understand heavy development, but three upgrades in three days > is a bit much even

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2

2005-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:38:06 +0100, neil wrote: > > CFLAGS="-march=k8 > > I use k8. k8, opteron, etc., etc. are supposed to be synonyms as I > understand it. k8 is the preferred one according to most sources I have > read but, if they are truly synonyms, I'm not sure why one should be > prefer

[gentoo-user] Help

2005-07-24 Thread C.Beamer
Hi All, After getting side-tracked by a power outage in the middle of a Gentoo install a couple of weeks ago, I finally got back to doing a Gentoo install trial run. All seemed to go well. When I rebooted I got the menu with the two selections listed (Gentoo and DOS). The computer will boot int

[gentoo-user] Thinkpad T20: savage graphics, framebuffer (tng) and X.

2005-07-24 Thread Stroller
Hi, Is anyone out there using one of these laptops, or a machine using a similar S3 Savage graphics card. with framebuffer & a GUI, please? Most of my experience is with headless servers, and it leaves me a bit ill-equipped to deal with this, but I'd really like to sort this so I can access m

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-24 Thread smoke3
Ok, some news: 1. Knoppix recognize the mouse as an ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse and I cannot get it working even with this livecd!!! 2. I think the problem is with the 2.6.* kernels: it seems mouse is always recognized, but the optical lens shuts down as soon as i begin moving it...

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Stroller
On Jul 24, 2005, at 6:11 pm, Stephan Grein wrote: This is not a comment on the 802.11b 11MBPS card that your link points to - for all I know that may use the excellently-supported Prism chipset. Get an Atheros or Prism54 based chipset, then all will be good. :) cheers. I'm not familiar with

Re: [gentoo-user] Help

2005-07-24 Thread Stroller
On Jul 24, 2005, at 6:23 pm, C.Beamer wrote: hda1 is DOS hda2 is /boot hda3 is swap hda4 is my extended partition hda5 is /root The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 root (hda0, 1) kernel /ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)

2005-07-24 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:49 +0200 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask > contains "multilib", but with a comment stating it is forced on when > MULTILIB_ABIS is defined, and make.defaults has MULTILIB_ABIS="x86 amd64". >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
On 7/24/05, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: > > The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as > Apple's "Airport Extreme" products - I know, because I sold three of > these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I b

Re: [gentoo-user] Help

2005-07-24 Thread Martins Steinbergs
remove space in root (hda0, 1) my kernel line also has devfs=nomount but probably this isnt needed if using latest genkernel, dont know. Martins On Sunday 24 July 2005 20:23, C.Beamer wrote: > Hi All, > > After getting side-tracked by a power outage in the middle of a Gentoo > install a coupl

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)

2005-07-24 Thread Jules Colding
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:10 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:49 +0200 > Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask > > contains "multilib", but with a comment stating it is forced on when > > MULTIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Help

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Martins Steinbergs wrote: remove space in root (hda0, 1) Actually, that should be (hd0,1), like you have for the splashimage. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:49 +0200 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask contains "multilib", but with a comment stating it is forced on when MULTILIB_ABIS is defined, and make.defaults has MULTILIB_ABI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED - CONCLUSION] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-24 Thread Joseph
Summary: For those who didn't follow up the thread, I was investigating an error message: "Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler." where the computer comes to a complete freeze, the only thing that works is the power switch. The error appears only under heavy load like comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:00:27 +0100, Stroller wrote: > The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as > Apple's "Airport Extreme" products - I know, because I sold three of > these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I believe that there are > no open-source drivers

[gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
I recently got my home server back up and running after the power supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting 140.86 MB. Originally the ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Help

2005-07-24 Thread C.Beamer
Hi, Thanks all for noticing the "typo". However, this was a typo in the e-mail, not in the boot.conf file. :-) Regards, Colleen Richard Fish wrote: > Martins Steinbergs wrote: > >> remove space in root (hda0, 1) >> >> >> > > Actually, that should be (hd0,1), like you have for the > splashima

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Colin
On Jul 24, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Mark Shields wrote: I recently got my home server back up and running after the power supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Kai Ole Schultz
On Sunday 24 07 2005 21:46 Mark Shields wrote: > I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine > as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as > 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . Did you enable high Memory Support in your kernel? HTH Kai Ole Schultz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Rumen Yotov
Mark Shields wrote: >I recently got my home server back up and running after the power >supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine >as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as >904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting >140.86

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:46:10 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > I recently got my home server back up and running after the power > supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine > as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as > 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . You n

Re: [gentoo-user] Help

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
C.Beamer wrote: Hi, Thanks all for noticing the "typo". However, this was a typo in the e-mail, not in the boot.conf file. :-) So, what does you actual boot.conf file contain? "(hd0,1)" or "(hda0,1)"? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration ─

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Jarry
Mark Shields wrote: No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): Actually, help says: CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM: > If you are compiling a kernel which wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote: > No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless > you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from > putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): well the -mm kernel does not have this option anymo

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Sven Köhler
> No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless > you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from > putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): > > Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration > > ──

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. On 7/24/05, Rudmer van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote: > > No I do not, as I was u

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Jul 24 15:46, Mark Shields (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > Any ideas? All the comments about enabling 4G highmem are correct - the kernel can't address a full gig without it. However, enabling this slightly slows down your memory, and some people choose to keep it off for speed unl

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

2005-07-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
David Corbin wrote: > However, my help center documentation doesn't have any > information on "Activation Gestures", Indeed, it doesn't here either. Time for a doc-patch? :) > and worse, even if I > uncheck "Use gestures for activating the above features" and > APPLY, it still beeps. Hmm, sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends upon your BIOS options. All of those "cache this o

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Did you build the kernel with high memory? On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mark Shields wrote: I recently got my home server back up and running after the power supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 K

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Colin
On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Fish wrote: Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
17 minutes ago, yes. On 7/24/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you build the kernel with high memory? > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
I'm fairly sure those options are disabled by default (I think). No way to check from my work though (ssh-enabled BIOS, or BIOS configurable from linux, would be nice). On 7/24/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Modern operating system like Linux 2.6 and WinXP bypass the BIOS > after the in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Mark Shields
I'm fairly sure those options are disabled by default (I think). On 7/24/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 17 minutes ago, yes. > > On 7/24/05, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you build the kernel with high memory? > > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem > MemTotal: 1034284 kB > MemFree:953172 kB > > Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. that's better than here: rudmer:~ # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Tim Igoe
Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem >>MemTotal: 1034284 kB >>MemFree:953172 kB >> >>Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. > Could it be shared ram taken for an on boa

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:38:24 +0200, Jarry wrote: > Actually, help says: > > CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM: > > > If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with > > more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here > > It looks to me, that up to 1GB (including) the answer

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Matt Nordhoff
Colin wrote: On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Fish wrote: Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. I am pretty sure this is actually correct

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